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TRAVIS: What the hell is that in the sky?

After five years of intense investigation

on Skinwalker Ranch...

The meter's going nuts.

...our team has documented

unbelievable phenomena

all across the mysterious 512-acre property.

Look at this. What the heck would have burned this post?

TRAVIS: At locations like the triangle...

Wow. Look at that.

TRAVIS: ...the mesa...

Popping smoke, popping smoke.

THOMAS: Look, look. It's getting sucked in.

TRAVIS: ...Homestead Two...

What I saw doesn't belong here.

-Hold on. -Hey.

TRAVIS: ...and more.

Right there.

We've experienced everything from UAPs,

freak energy spikes

and underground anomalies that have left us perplexed

as to what they are or where they came from.

THOMAS: Feel the difference.

TRAVIS: Oh, wow. It's freezing.

Tonight, we're looking back at compelling evidence

we've documented that suggests

all of these phenomena and hot spots...

Look at that.

TRAVIS: ...might be directly related.

-Oh. -Oh! Whoa. What was that?

TRAVIS: Between otherworldly legends

of local Native American tribes

and rumors about interdimensional gateways

reported by the Robert Bigelow investigation--

that was partially financed

by the federal government a couple decades ago--

our team is still trying to figure out the truth

behind all the phenomena that we've witnessed

on Skinwalker Ranch.

Look right here.

ERIK: This thing is really clipping along.

TRAVIS: All we know for sure is

that they are real, and they seem to appear...

BRANDON: Oh, my gosh.

TRAVIS: ...and disappear

without any conventional explanation.

-That's insane. -Yeah.

TRAVIS: And one of the hot spots that we've been focusing on

for several years to find some answers is simply known

as "the triangle."

All right.

Are you gonna be able to get the lidar drone up?

-Yup. -Let's go.

After documenting multiple UAPs

and energy signals there

between 5,000 and just 30 feet high...

Check that out, Erik. Real-time lidar point cloud.

...in 2022,

Jim Royston of OmniTeq flew an infrared lidar drone

just above the triangle while we launched a rocket.

We hoped that Jim would capture images

of anything invisible to the naked eye

that might explain the cause of the phenomena.

Hey, that's a beautiful launch.

We caught it. It was amazing.

-ERIK: You want to lead us into it? -ROYSTON: Absolutely.

TRAVIS: After he further processed the data,

we could hardly believe what we saw.

-What was that spot? -ROYSTON: For the last couple hours,

our team is trying to look at this and say,

"Okay, what would cause this void?"

TRAVIS: Can you zoom way out?

-Whoa. -ERIK: Look at that.

TRAVIS: It was a perfect circular anomaly

with a black void right in the center.

It's-it's a shadow of something.

What... what are we looking at?

-THOMAS: A black hole? (laughs) -Could be...

-I mean-- -TRAVIS: Well, that could be

a shadow of a wormhole.

Our speculation was only reinforced

when a follow-up lidar scan at the triangle

produced a three-dimensional doughnut-shaped ring

just above the ground.

For decades, many scientists have theorized that wormholes--

which are passageways

between two distant points in space and time--

could actually exist.

And the circular anomalies

that Jim captured on his lidar device appeared similar

in structure to a theoretical wormhole.

All right, Cameron, be advised we're ready to launch.

Are you in position?

TRAVIS: Later that year, Erik Bard

and Kaleb Bench flew above the triangle

with Brandon and Cameron Fugal in their helicopter

to scan the airspace with a spectrum analyzer

while we launched rockets from the ground.

Dude, that one went.

ERIK: I'm getting lots of noise in the RF spectrum.

It's as if there was, in fact,

some active interference taking place.

Perhaps even some kind of jamming.

TRAVIS: Right after Erik detected the radio frequency

interference on his spectrum analyzer,

Cameron-- who was wearing

military-grade night vision goggles--

saw what he described as a bunch

of orb-like UAPs flying past the chopper.

No one else could see them so it was anybody's guess

what they were or where they were coming from.

ERIK: I have some video footage taken

from the vantage point of the helicopter

that we all need to get eyes on,

and you'll see why.

TRAVIS: Yeah. I see the triangle off

-to the bottom left here, right? -ERIK: Yup.

BRYANT: Whoa.

-Oh. -TRAVIS: Behind the mesa.

-Where'd it go? -Where'd it go?

-Did it go right behind the mesa? -ERIK: Yes.

-TRAVIS: It did come out of the mesa. -BRYANT: Oh, my gosh.

-CAMERON: Came out of the mesa? -It did come out of the mesa.

It came right out of the mesa.

What?

Yeah.

TRAVIS: One of the incredible

Native American legends

we had heard was about UAPs

flying into and out of mesas.

And here, we captured images

of one entering the mesa in the east field,

then exiting the other side

and flying right toward the triangle.

Was this one of the UAPs that Cameron saw?

And also, how could it fly straight through solid rock?

Curiously, right where the UAP entered the mesa,

there is an ancient petroglyph

that reportedly depicts an interdimensional portal.

So, could there be some kind of portal-related connection

between the east field

and the triangle on Skinwalker Ranch?

Incredibly, that's just one of the possible explanations

that we've discovered during our investigation.

You're all good to go, huh?

Okay.

TRAVIS: One of the craziest rumors

about Skinwalker Ranch is that

some kind of secret base

or alien structure is buried underground.

So, in 2021,

after a former member of the Bigelow team told us about

an old cave entrance that was covered

by tons of boulders on the mesa,

we conducted a drilling operation to see

if anything of interest might be in there.

Hey, guys, come on down here.

That was quite the noise that was just making.

Yeah, I'm up against something pretty hard right now.

So, we're coming up about 11 inches every ten feet.

So, it sounds like you're describing

kind of a "V"

where this hard shelf is coming down,

and now you're saying that it's starting

to turn and go back up, so we've got kind of a...

a "V" that your bit is sitting there bumping up against.

May not even be a "V," it could even be maybe a dome.

TRAVIS: A massive dome-shaped obstruction

buried deep in the mesa that the drill couldn't penetrate?

If that wasn't strange enough,

when we searched through the drilling spoils,

we found a bunch of metal fragments.

And after testing them at the University of Utah,

they turned out to be composed

of the same kinds of materials

that NASA and SpaceX use

to protect the surfaces of spacecraft.

After two separate drilling operations were unsuccessful

in penetrating the bottom and top of the dome-shaped object,

in 2023 ground-penetrating radar expert

Jan Francke ran an extensive survey over the mesa

to get us better data on what could be buried in there.

JAN: Remember, this is not the shape of the object.

This is just what the radar sees.

Mm-hmm.

JAN: The main target is very, very clear.

But as we look at this,

there is an absolutely obvious target

that extends across this entire area.

Wow.

It looks a lot like you would think a debris field would be.

ERIK: Just think

about what circumstances would produce a debris field

inside of a mesa.

TRAVIS: Erik was right.

What could cause a debris field like that?

Especially given our own video

of a UAP passing through another section of the mesa

and flying toward the triangle.

Later that summer, we came up with a new strategy to find out.

The plan was to drill boreholes

on either side of the dome-shaped object

that would go all the way up through the top of the mesa.

Then we could insert scanning devices

to hopefully identify what all these anomalies are

and figure out how best to uncover them.

Boy, you can hear that below us, can't you?

Yeah.

Jared, do you got a copy? Are you going through

something real hard right now or what?

I'm into something fairly decently hard.

I'm only going about a foot a minute

at 12,000 pounds.

TRAVIS: At about 180 feet in,

the drill-- which should have been able

to cut through the rock like nothing--

hit something that seemed to not only slow the operation down

but might have caused some other really weird things to happen.

ERIK: What are you tuning into there, Travis?

TRAVIS: There's a signal at 1.6-ish.

All right, guys, the 1.6 measured by the Kraken is coming

right down the line from Homestead Two.

Right there.

TRAVIS: During many of our experiments at the triangle,

the east field and the mesa,

we've detected radio signals at 1.6 gigahertz.

And Erik and I believe that some of them may have been a form

of communication from an unknown source.

But it was eerie that Erik's Kraken antenna system

pinpointed this one several hundred yards away

at Homestead Two.

We've not only documented a lot of phenomena there--

including orb-like UAPs--

but past ranch investigators from the Bigelow team

have told us that they believed

there could actually be an interdimensional portal

in that area.

Holy crap.

It is right here.

It is coming from straight overhead.

When Kaleb and I got over there to see

if we could find the actual source of the signal,

we discovered that it was coming from directly overhead,

in the sky.

I want to put a rocket right here

and launch it right up through there.

So, with Dragon's help,

we launched a rocket to see if it would come into contact

with whatever might be up there.

We're launching in three, two, one.

TRAVIS: Boy, that one went straight up, didn't it?

The rocket shot up several hundred feet

without any kind of interference.

But then

one of the weirdest things we've ever seen happened.

KALEB: Almost looked like it stopped right there for a second.

-Dude, it looks like it's stuck there. Look. -KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS: Look, it's not moving at all.

-It's just sitting there. -KALEB: It stopped.

TRAVIS: The rocket froze midair

for several seconds as if something invisible

was holding onto it.

Could whatever was broadcasting

that 1.6 gigahertz signal

have somehow taken hold of the rocket?

And was it connected

to whatever is buried inside the mesa?

Another experiment that we conducted

at the triangle would offer a possible answer.

One that might be connected

to a lot of the phenomena we've experienced

all across the ranch.

PETE: There is an anomaly right at Homestead Two.

TRAVIS: It's coming up from that angle to some point above us.

Kind of looks about as high as the laser went.

And we've measured something nobody has ever seen before.

This is incredible.

operation continued in 2023... r mesg

Are you ready to make it bright again?

I am. Let's do it.

...we conducted another

multi-tech experiment at the triangle

to further investigate the anomalous zone between

the ground and nearly a mile high in the air.

-You ready to paint the ground, paint the sky? -Absolutely.

-You ready, Jim? -We're ready.

So, we got a lot to do, so I say we get to it.

The plan was for our friends

from a company named Nu-Salt Laser Light Shows

to set up a laser cannon that would shoot a single beam

up through the anomalous zone while we launched some rockets.

ROYSTON: Man, we got all kinds of TVs.

TRAVIS: Meanwhile, we would scan the entire area

from the ground to the sky surrounding the laser beam

with three different types of lidar devices.

One would be an aerial drone-based device

operated by Jim Royston.

Another was a terrestrial laser scanner

that Pete Kelsey set up on a tripod

in the triangle area.

And finally, Kaleb Bench was operating

a hand-held unit known as a SLAM scanner.

All three of these devices use infrared light

that can image things on the ground and in the air

that the naked eye might not be able to see.

Okay, Tim, you're ready to test.

Right. We're ready. Laser's coming on.

Laser's on.

TRAVIS: There you go.

Uh, guys.

We are hitting something with the laser. Y-Y'all, look.

We're hitting something.

You see the spot up there?

That-- it should just be a beam.

What are we hitting?

DON: I have no idea.

TRAVIS: The laser beam was clearly being cut off,

or absorbed, by something

about 2,000 feet in the sky.

Well, look at that.

So you guys are aware, just be advised

we have seen a 1.6...

TRAVIS: Then, just like what happened

during our drilling operation in the mesa,

Erik's Kraken system detected

a 1.6 gigahertz signal coming from Homestead Two.

And moments later, he saw a UAP

over the mesa on his infrared surveillance camera.

-THOMAS: Wow. -This is crazy.

It is not like an asteroid

or, I mean, a comet or a meteorite

-or anything like that. -ERIK: No. -No.

You know, looking at this has just made me

all the more curious

about SLAM scanning. Did anything happen

-with the lidar device? -Yep, and...

Well, I'll just show you.

TRAVIS: The next day,

after studying the shocking video of the UAP,

we couldn't wait to see what all the lidar data might show us.

PETE: So, this was Kaleb's path while walking with the lidar scanner.

A lidar scan can see fine details

that would be invisible to the naked eye aboveground,

but just wait.

-THOMAS: What? -PETE: That's impossible.

Lidar can't see through the ground.

-No. -Oh, my God.

The lidar somehow imaged a massive ring of data

beneath the triangle

that matched up perfectly with the two previous

circular anomalies that Jim Royston

had detected at the triangle.

Was this more evidence of a wormhole?

We don't know, but it was just the beginning

of what this experiment revealed.

PETE: This is one

of the terrestrial laser scans we did

from our perspective at the triangle.

The terrestrial laser scanner can see

farther and gather more points

per second than the SLAM scanner can.

We're looking at an anomaly out in the east field.

What in the actual crap?

That is insane.

PETE: I don't know what it is,

but there had to be something there

for the lidar to detect it.

Can you zoom out further?

Look at that.

Yeah, look at this. What?

Look at this smear all around.

It's like we're inside a cone of something.

Can you look up?

-It does go into a cone. -KALEB: Whoa.

-Look at that. -TRAVIS: I mean that is insane.

You're inside it. We're all inside it.

The terrestrial scanner imaged a massive cone-shaped anomaly.

It stretched all the way from Homestead Two,

where we detected the 1.6 gigahertz signal,

over to the east field canyon.

And what was really incredible

is, the apex was directly above the center of the triangle

at 2,000 feet.

The exact altitude where our laser beam

was cut off during the experiment.

Could this be what causes all the phenomena

at those three hot spots on Skinwalker Ranch?

We conducted another experiment to find out,

and, believe it or not, the results were even crazier.

-Drone going up, Pete. .

TRAVIS: After all the crazy phenomena

we documented across the ranch in 2023...

Okay, we're gonna get airborne.

...our final experiment of the year

truly left us wondering if these things are interconnected.

-TRAVIS (over walkie): Cameron, are you in place? -I am.

TRAVIS: The experiment involved multiple technologies,

including launching rockets...

There it goes. Rocket's up.

...a mobilized, ranch-wide lidar scan

that was also tracked by Cameron Fugal

-in the helicopter... -Go.

...and a hot-air balloon propane burner

that we used as a huge flamethrower

at the center of the triangle.

Three. Two. One. Stop.

The results were absolutely amazing...

-KALEB: Whoa, what was that? -BOBBY: I don't know.

Something just went right across the mesa like that.

...and affirming.

We once again detected the cone-shaped anomaly

stretching from Homestead Two,

through the triangle, and over to the east field.

And while we didn't see more data

related to ring-shaped anomalies at the triangle,

we did see those exact kind of phenomena in the east field.

PETE: So, have a look at this.

This is familiar but different this time.

Why are there data points underneath the surface?

PETE: Exactly. So, that is impossible.

Lidar can't see through the ground.

Oh, wow.

That is amazing.

I mean, the textbook definition of anomalous.

PETE: There's one more for me

to show that's kind of crazy.

You see these right here in the sky?

Oh, yeah.

That's looking back toward

the photogrammetry anomaly.

We obtained more possible evidence

of a massive column-shaped anomaly,

which we first documented back in 2021.

Whoa.

ERIK: Look at this structure.

This phantom structure that's sticking up in the sky.

That's nuts.

TRAVIS: Multiple UAPs also appeared in our specialized camera data,

which were maneuvering all around the helicopter.

-Isn't that bizarre? -Yeah.

TRAVIS: And finally, a mysterious light appeared

in Dry Gulch Creek,

which is located in the south field.

-TRAVIS: Oh. -BRYANT: What the hell?

TRAVIS: What could that be?

This wouldn't be my lights from the helicopter?

No, your spotlight was out well in front of the helicopter.

-CAMERON: Oh, yeah. Okay. -This is coming from directly below.

Why... why in the river? I mean, that's so bizarre.

THOMAS: Not just anywhere in the river,

but I think that this spot in the river

has special significance

based on our excursion down the river.

BRYANT: That wolf creature that was described

as a possibility of an ancient dire wolf.

That's not very far around the bend from there.

No, it's not.

TRAVIS: This is where

we recently discovered a dead creature

that, according to biologist Ben Woodruff...

BEN: The size fits into that hole perfectly.

...may have been a dire wolf.

-What? -You kidding me?

TRAVIS: A kind of predator which supposedly went extinct

about 10,000 years ago.

Everything I'm measuring, everything I'm looking at says

it looks like it has dire wolf in it or is a young dire wolf.

TRAVIS: The experiment gave us

more incredible data that suggests

all the phenomena we keep encountering on the ranch

may be connected to one another.

If that's the case, what is the cause?

All I know for sure is, we won't stop this investigation

until we know exactly what the secret of Skinwalker Ranch is.

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